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fat, and weighed nearly 7f oz. ; it was preserved by Mr. 

 Swaysland.'^ Again, at p. 1483 (s. s.), an instance is 

 recorded of a Solitary Snipe caught in a gin which had 

 been set by the side of a watercress bed, at Sompting, about 

 two miles from Worthing, on the 24th of October, 1868, 

 and came the same day into the possession of Mr. J. W. 

 Stephenson, of Loudoun Place, Brixton Road. At p. 492, 

 Mr. Parkin mentions that Mr. C. J. Ebden, of Coghurst 

 Hall, near Hastings, informed him that he flushed a Great 

 Snipe ou that estate on October 6tb, 1881. 



Mr. Bristowe writes to me of a specimen shot at Stream 

 Farm, Dallington, near Battle, September 23rd, 1875, by 

 Mr. Watts, of Caldbec Hill; and Mr. Child, of Slinfold, has 

 kindly informed me that he saw a Great Snipe flushed in a 

 barley field, and shot by Mr. William Lintott, of Horsham, 

 about ten years ago ; and from Mr. Nicholls, of Eastbourne, I 

 hear of another, shot in Pevensey Marsh, which he saw in 

 the flesh in 1888. Mr. Aubrey Hillman, of Iford, near 

 Lewes, has also kindly written to tell me of a Solitary Snipe 

 which he shot, in the early autumn of 1860, at Lower Stone- 

 ham, near Lewes, but although its great size and weight 

 (over 8 oz.) were observed at the time, he, not knowing its 

 rarity, did not have it preserved. Mr. P. Sorrell, Old Hum- 

 phrey's Avenue, Hastings, tells me that he has in his collec- 

 tion two examples killed at Rye. 



Markwick, in his Catalogue, Linn. Trans, (vol. iv. p. 8), 

 says, " I have seen one of this species, which was killed near 

 Horsham;'^ and in an unpublished MS., now in the Library 

 of the Linnean Society (p. 23), this specimen is again re- 

 ferred to, as seen by the author, and killed near Horsham. 

 It was obtained on the 1st of October, 1793, and a full de- 

 scription is given of it, together with a water-colour drawing. 



